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Polish Woman Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1717
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Polish Woman

Jean-Antoine Watteau · 1717

Why it's great

A woman in a long, fur-trimmed coat and a tall fur hat looks out. Jean-Antoine Watteau painted this exotic costume in about 1717.

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📍 National Museum in WarsawŚródmieście, Poland

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About the artist

Jean-Antoine Watteau

1684–1721 · born in Valenciennes · died in Nogent-sur-Marne

Jean-Antoine Watteau was a French painter born in Valenciennes in 1684. He invented the fête galante, a dreamy picture of elegant people in silk costumes having a party or flirting in a park, and he also loved painting actors and clowns from the theater. He died young, at 36, in 1721.

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